Plot

Act I: "Don't you ever wonder about the future?"

Cubert overclocks Bender to improve his performance while playing an online game. Walt, Larry, and Igner are defeated by Bender and complain to Mom, who sues both Cubert and Professor Farnsworth for overclocking Bender, which is a violation of Bender's contract of ownership. She also sends an army of robots to capture Bender so he can be reset to his original, slower programming. Due to his heightened intelligence caused by his overclocking, Bender begins processing countless books and hooks himself to a water cooler to prevent himself from overheating. He then steals the processing chips of Mom's robots, increasing his capacities even further before leaving Planet Express to find a new, larger coolant.

During their trial, Farnsworth and Cubert are ordered to bring in Bender as evidence of their contract violation, and are forced to pay $10,000 every day until Bender is found. With Planet Express running out of business, Leela, weary of her on-again, off-again relationship with Fry, decides to leave Planet Express. Heartbroken, Fry attempts to commit suicide by going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. There, he discovers a cave behind the falls where Bender has developed into an omnipotent being capable of foreseeing the future, using the falls as his new cooling system. Fry tries to convince Bender to help Farnsworth and Cubert, but Bender refuses, unconcerned with their troubles and predicting that they will be found guilty. Fry then asks Bender whether what his future with Leela would be like if they came together, after which Bender gives him a sad look and tells him to leave, saying nothing about Leela.

Act III: "We've had some tough times, but at least we won a Tony!"

After Fry returns to Farnsworth and Cubert's trial, Bender has a change of heart and appears in court, accusing Mom of unfairly trying Cubert, a minor. Fearing that Cubert will gain the jury's sympathy, Mom drops charges against Cubert while still attempting to sue Farnsworth. However, Bender declares that by dropping charges against Farnsworth's clone, she is unable to press charges against Farnsworth for the same crime because he and Cubert are technically the same person. Enraged that she is unable to sue Farnsworth, Mom captures Bender and has him reset to his original programming, returning him to normal. Leela also returns to Fry, who still wonders what the future holds for him and Leela. Bender reveals that he had written down his prediction of their future, which Fry and Leela silently read together. The two don't reveal to the viewer exactly what the prediction says, but their facial expressions indicate that they will have their ups and downs, and will ultimately have a happy ending.

Reception

In its original U.S. broadcast on 1 September, 2011, "Overclockwise" scored a 0.8 share among adults aged 18-49, and 1.571 million total viewers.[3] Both numbers were up compared to the previous week's broadcast of "Cold Warriors".

Alternatively, it could be a reference to The King of All Cosmos from Katamari Damacy video games.

Bender using Niagara Falls as cooling for his processor is most likely a reference to a famous quote from a professor of electrical engineering who said, “The super computer is technologically impossible. It would take all of the water that flows over Niagara Falls to cool the heat generated by the number of vacuum tubes required.”

The German commander mentions listening to German electronic music group Kraftwerk.

On Mom's sons' wall, there is a poster of Mom sitting in a pose. This poster is very similar to that of a classic Farrah Fawcett photo.

There is also a poster of the Hypnotoad in the "black light" style popular during the Sixties.

The first time Bender, Fry and Cubert play World of World War II 3, Bender's character is very clunky and glitchy, which may be a reference to Microsoft's Kinect and Nintendo's Wii, motion controlled consoles that often feature very unresponsive characters and avatars.

Bender "[hacking himself] inside out and now the entire universe [being his] processor" may be a reference to A. C. Clarke's The City and the Stars, a classic science fiction novel featuring a being of "pure intellect", named Vanamonde, whose consciousness is described as a "quantum lattice wrought into the very fabric of the Universe". In that novel, Vanamonde is the one who reveals the true history of the human race to the protagonists in what is commonly rated among the best science fiction plot twists of all time. Since The City and the Stars (published 1956), the theme of beings similar to Vanamonde has been adopted many times for extremely old and powerful entities throughout science fiction.

Mom: It violates the licence agreement. And that means I've got 'im right by his little—[Cut to.]Smitty: Ding dong. I'm sayin' "Ding dong" 'cause you don't 'ave a doorbell.

Larry: Even an idiot like me knows he'll be ruined.Mom: An idiot like you is correct![She slaps him]

Professor Farnsworth: You overclocked Bender?! What did I teach you about tinkering with machinery?

Cubert: How. You taught me how.

Bender: Guys! Guys! I discovered I have an extra processor in my compartment of mystery. Bein' overclocked was a start, but, once I activate this processor, I'll be all like, "You're a big dummy, Einstein! Get a haircut!"

Bender: Ten more processors for me. Once I install these, I'll have access to the loftiest realms o' thought!Zoidberg: Anyone have access to a lofty realm of gravy?

Bender: Farewell, monobrains.

Yellow and red lawyer: Your Honour, Mom is a poor, frail industrialist with three special sons who require constant neglect.

Ron Whitey: I'm holding the defendants in contempt and fining them ten-thousand dollars a day until they produce the Robot.Hermes: Oh! At that rate, Planet Express will be bankrupt in... Four fingers!

Nibbler: We'll call it Nibbler on the Roof!

Fry: But— Bender?! What happened to you?Bender: I'll try to put it in terms you can comprehend. I passed the existential singularity.Fry: Try harder!

Ron Whitey: Not only have the defendants failed to rebut the charges, they've not even presented any mitigating factors to recommend leniency. It strikes me as an extra-risky strategy.Hyper-Chicken: Did you say "extra-crispy recipe"?Ron Whitey: You know I didn't.

Fry: Bender doesn't care about us anymore.Zoidberg: Someone used to care about me?! Hooray!

Ron Whitey: Silence! One more in-burst like that an' I'll have this courtroom removed from you!

Bender: There's no time now. Quick, Zoidberg! Take three steps to your right![Zoidberg takes three steps to the right and a ceiling fan falls on him]

It can be argued that the characters don't age. It can also be argued, however, that they do, because Farnsworth's age changes from season to season.

When Bender interrupts Fishy Joe as he is about to read the jury's verdict, there is a sound effect of Bender quickly sliding his chair back to stand up. However, in the next shot there are no chairs near Bender, and he has been standing up the entire time anyway.

When Leela returns to the Planet Express headquarters, Bender has his back to the door, but, in the next camera angle, he has his back to the screen.

Leela returns to the Planet Express headquarters through the left door, but, after a few camera-angle changes, is suddenly at the right door.

The exterior shot of the Planet Express headquarters at approximately 7 minutes and 36 seconds into the episode shows the hangar roof open, yet when we see inside the building moments later it is shut.

During the in-game scenes, Bender is seen wielding an M16, which was designed in 1957, but the game is set during World War II.

In "Lethal Inspection", Hermes hacked into Bender's record and marked him as "TERMINATED". Therefore, Mom should know that Bender is terminated, and his record, shown in this episode, should state that he is "TERMINATED".

When Mom sees the Professor and Cubert getting arrested she is surprised that she has the opportunity to ruin the Professor; however, because she called the police she should have at least known the name of Cubert Farnsworth and that the location was at Planet Express, a company that Professor Farnsworth owns. Thus, seeing him should not have come as a surprise.

Continuity

This is the third time that Bender gives someone or something the finger (although it is implied that he did so offscreen). The first time was visibly seen in "Law and Oracle", then again in "Benderama", but this was not visible.

This is the fourth time that Planet Express almost goes out of business (This fact is referenced in the banner that says "GOING OUT OF BUSINESS...AGAIN!"). The first three times were in Bender's Big Score, Into the Wild Green Yonder and "Neutopia".

Places

References

^"Now I will say at this point, having written the last episode for FOX, and the last DVD for the DVD releases, and now being back again, and being pretty far along in production, we’re the show with the most experience in writing our last episode ever. We’re getting good at it – we’re doing our third one that we’re actually working on here at the moment – they’ve all been written by Ken Keeler, I should mention, who is writing his third last episode ever." — Cohen, DavidZalben, Alex (22 June 2010). "Exclusive: Futurama Creator Spills on Special Last, Last Episode!". UGO. Retrieved on 22 June 2010.